Adding a little class to cover songs

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Is it just me or does playing single notes on cover songs just sound way too boring? I’ve only come across one or two players who add spice to a song really well but this, IMHO is done really well :+1: :+1: I want to be Paul Lassey when I grow up :laughing:

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It’s not just you @RussSkyman. Unfortunately, boring single note covers is exactly where I’m at. But you gotta start somewhere, right? If I had to choose a harmonica hero, it would be Paul Lassey. Check him out playing ‘I don’t want to miss a thing’ Absolutely amazing. I wish I could be half as good!

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@PapaCurly yup, as well as “I won’t ever give up”. I like that one because it’s all done “clean” with no hand mike. some songs need the dirty, but some just don’t. :+1:

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Here’s some fun for you in single notes. I just really love the picture. I am and Asterix fan.

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Ha ha, trust you to find that, @toogdog.

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I agree @RussSkyman

When we are learning songs (as is) it’s copying and not fully getting our creative juices flowing.

I think of awesome covers
Like Metallica covering Turn the page or whiskey in the jar. While they covered the originals they made it their own.

Metallica is just an example there are 1000’s more - Elvis did this well.

@luke does this well too. Take a listen to his versions of amazing grace, hallelujah and even happy birthday - he adds great creative spice flavoring the originals and making it his own.

So I would think listening to originals and covers might help us to open up our creativity and come up with ideas on how to take our covers to a new level.

Who knows? I’m not there yet with harmonica and am just getting there with guitar.

:v:
Mike

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@RussSkyman thanks for sharing this beautiful piece of music. Of course, there are LOTS of single notes in this piece. Also some double-stops and splits, which I agree makes it much more enjoyable for me, and something I also enjoy doing. I’m always trying to find places I can add a chord, a split, a double stop, or something to “fatten” up the sound and make the arrangement more interesting - and so different from every other wind instrument who doesn’t have that option!

Thanks for the kind words @cloves-fibs0f. I appreciate it!

I think it’s always good to learn a melody nice clean single notes, and then see where/how you can add stuff to make it more harmonicariffic. (btw - that’s a new word. Why do you think of it?)

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